The use of the term “Mash-Up” specifically with regard to music as some sort of new millennium idea. “Mashing-up” two disparate musical sources goes back in recent times directly to the Hip-Hop of the mid to late 1970′s and can be seen popularized in Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock.
If I cared to write an expose, I could go on about how the cultural roots go back much further in American and global folk musics from Rock and Soul into Blues, Jazz, European folk and African folk musics, but I do not feel like writing an essay at the moment.
Just remember, when you use the term “Mash-Up” this is not a new idea.
Thank you.
